Coming of Age: The Sexual Awakening of Margaret Mead

✍ Scribed by Blum, Deborah Beatriz

• Book ID: 109583999
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781250055729

✦ Synopsis

The startling coming-of-age story of famed anthropologist Margaret Mead whose radical ideas challenged the social and sexual norms of her time.

The story begins in 1923, when twenty-two year old Margaret Mead is living in New York City, engaged to her childhood sweetheart and on the verge of graduating from college. Seemingly a conventional young lady, she marries, but shocks friends when she decides to keep her maiden name. After starting graduate school at Columbia University, she does the unthinkable: she first enters into a forbidden relationship with a female colleague, then gets caught up in an all-consuming and secret affair with a brilliant older man. As her sexual awakening continues, she discovers it is possible to be in love with more than one person at the same time.

While Margaret's personal explorations are just beginning, her interest in distant cultures propels her into the new field of anthropology. Ignoring the constraints put on women, she...